Charlatans, The (UK)
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The Charlatans: Now for the Big Time
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 10 November 1990
Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and the Inspirals have all been tipped to break the States, but THE CHARLATANS may have the best chance of all. ...
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Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 1990
NOTE: This was the band’s first interview in the national music press. ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, 1990
In the U.K., the last few years have seen the original sequence of '60s rock replayed – in reverse. Nineteen eighty-eight was the year of ...
The Charlatans: Sexier Than Shaky?
Interview by John McCready, The Face, October 1990
After one chart hit, The Charlatans are poised on the fringe of either stardom or obscurity. They may be better mannered than Happy Mondays and cuter than the Stone Roses, but will ...
The Charlatans: Independents have their day
Profile and Interview by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 23 October 1990
TWELVE months is a long time in pop music. This time last year The Charlatans had never made a record. They could only boast that ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 22 December 1990
1990 could well go down in the rock almanac as the year The Charlatans stole the initiative from The Stone Rose. While the figureheads of ...
The Charlatans: First Charlatango In Paris
Interview by James Brown, Vox, January 1991
The story so far… Completely unknown nine months ago and still reeling from a Number One hit album. The Charlatans have just made their first ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, February 1991
TONIGHT, ON the last leg of their sold-out tour of Europe, The Charlatans play Amsterdam's modish Milkweg — the Milky Way in almost bilingual Holland ...
Interview by John Robb, Melody Maker, 29 January 1994
Remember THE CHARLATANS? Pop idols of the baggy era, responsible for such sublime moments as 'The Only One I Know'? Whatever happened to them? Well, ...
The Charlatans: Return to Madchester
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, March 1994
After a few indiscretions, Manchester's adopted sons The Charlatans are keeping their motor running with the help of Ambient hippy Steve Hillage... ...
The Charlatans: Melkweg, Amsterdam
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 5 March 1994
IT'S VALENTINE'S weekend in Amsterdam, love is in the air (and indeed, in the area), made all the more blissful by the dizzying aroma of ...
Brash trash — The Charlatans, Pulp, Tindersticks: Sound City, The Tramway, Glasgow
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 April 1994
The Charlatans and Pulp play the opening night concert at Sound City in Glasgow ...
Report and Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995
IAN WATSON talks to the bands who are contributing to the Help album and how this project compares to pop's last major charity initiative, the ...
The Charlatans: Fake That and Party!
Report and Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 16 September 1995
THE CHARLATANS are Number One! That's not a value judgement — it's a fact! This week, the band many had written off as ex-baggy no-marks ...
Rockfield: Searching For Console Rebels
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 May 1996
Rockfield: you know, the legendary Welsh studio where Oasis, the Roses, Iggy et al record amid scenes of mayhem. Sort of. Well, it seems Bebop ...
Blue Tones — The Charlatans: Knebworth, Herfordshire
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 August 1996
The Charlatans must have dreamt of upstaging Oasis. At Knebworth, they almost did. But it came at a horrible price, says Caroline Sullivan ...
Primal Scream: Vanishing Point; Charlatans UK: Tellin' Stories
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 7 July 1997
YES, VIRGINIA, there were rock & roll-meets-club culture collisions before the electronica boomlet. Take Primal Scream's 1991 masterpiece Screamadelica, a soulful, druggy expansion of rock's ...
The Charlatans: Docklands Arena, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 9 December 1997
Tellin' stories... over again ...
Music for a Divine Moment: The Best Music of 2001
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 17 December 2001
IN THESE DAYS of crusades, jihads, and God-Bless-This-Lands, I've been wondering why so much music writing is riddled with religious imagery. ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, CMJ New Music Monthly, Fall 2001
TIM BURGESS is waiting for his man. ...
The Charlatans/Starsailor: Irving Plaza, New York
Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 29 January 2002
What it feels like for a boy: The Charlatans, Starsailor, and musings on transatlantic masculinities. ...
The Charlatans: "Everyone has their share of bad luck don't they?"
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 15 March 2002
Their accountant ran off with £350,000, a keyboard player died on them, and now the lead singer has moved to LA. So what keeps the ...
The Charlatans: Academy, Islington, London ***
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 7 May 2004
FEW BRITISH BANDS can tear the roof off a venue as ruthlessly as The Charlatans. It's one of the reasons for the enduring affection in ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 17 April 2006
IF ROCK POINTS were awarded purely on the basis of longevity, the Charlatans would certainly be counting in double figures. ...
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